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PASTE: Colin Kaepernick Is Right To Disrespect Our Racist, Warmongering National Anthem.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/08/colin-kaepernick-is-right-to-disrespect-our-racist.html
The national anthem is a racist, warmongering song written by a slave owner
Have you ever read the full lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner?” It’s racist as ****! The little-known 3rd verse is all about celebrating the deaths of escaped slaves who, understandably, ran away from their plantations to fight for the British Army in the War of 1812 against the slaveholding United States!
No refugee could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And the writer of the national anthem, Francis Scott Key, was a horrible racist who owned slaves and sued abolitionists for trying to “associate and amalgamate with the negro.”
It’s funny how the most memorable renditions of the Star Spangled Banner have been performed by black people, who Francis Scott Key hated and wanted to keep enslaved.
I propose that we replace the national anthem with “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” which is a beautiful song, it’s shorter and easier to sing, and it’s about our country’s natural beauty and family heritage instead of war, bombardment and defeat. And it’s set to the same tune as “God Save the Queen,” so it would be a fun way to annoy the Brits. And they’d be too formal and proper and stiff-upper-lipped to be able to do anything about it! Ha ha!